S Quotes
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“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?”
“She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.”
“She thought about how her biggest wish as a child was to grow up. But growing up hurt like hell in a world that actively preyed on innocence and demanded conformity. Now that she was a jaded adult, she would give anything to be a wild kid again.”
Source: Paragon Seven
“She [...] thought about how her husband came in stinking like flowers. Then she thought about his shotgun on the mantle in the other room.”
Source: Children of Promise
“She thought about how in that moment life was perfect because it was simple. One truck, a world asleep, and a million stars.
It didn’t matter where they were going.
She was just existing.”
Source: Heaven Has No Regrets
“She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.”
Source: A Suitable Vengeance
“She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.”
“She thought about it and nodded slightly. "Yes, the darknet economy was seeded by real world wealth. Wealth that was questionable in origin to begin with. Here, it’s being invested in people and projects that have begun to return value - not in dollars, but in things of intrinsic human worth. Energy, information, food, shelter.”
Source: Freedom™
“She thought about telling him that knowing what you want is its own kind of curse. Because when else are you so aware that you're never going to get it? Not knowing meant possibility and dreaming and hopes.”
Source: The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
“She thought about the kind of harm a person could inflict intentionally- through murder or robbery or rape- and about the kind that happened by accident, to people who weren't the targets at all, but just happened to be proximate, or in the way. Undeserving, innocent people who suffered for the crimes of others. She thought about women and children whose only crime was wandering into the blast zone, or being the son or daughter of the wrong man. The son, or the daughter, or the wife.
The lady or the tiger, she thought. Truth or dare. Your money or your life.”
Source: That Summer
“She thought about their time at Bridge Builders Hospice: how people passed through those bedrooms like ghosts on wrecked rowboats, incapable of redirecting course from the approaching cliff. She had witnessed it many times: the moment dying became a letting, and the currents plunged their patients, headfirst, into waterfalls so misty it was like sailing through cloud. Resist it nor not, it made no difference.”
Source: The Institute for Creative Dying
“She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.”
Source: Sweet Salt Air
“She thought all was good. She was feeling really really happy actually. Though not surprisingly, It only took a matter of five words to make her feel as though her metaphoric beautiful wings had been torn off and shredded. Discarded in a pit among other wings that suffered the same fate.
Echoes of words spoken ring through her head. Another sleepless night. Another sadness filled her heart, and where once that light was burning bright in her chest, a blown out candle remains.”
“She thought good things happened to good people. I know that girls are exempt from this logic. Good alone gets us nowhere.”
Source: The Girls Are All So Nice Here
“She thought he was dead until, sensing her presence, his eyelids fluttered open to a pair of brilliant, lightning-blue eyes.”
Source: Firestorm
“She thought him honorable for exercising the most basic level of restraint? Surely, she had never met an honorable man.
He wasn’t one, but in that moment, he wanted to be.”
Source: The Paragon
“She thought him very handsome as he said this, but reflected that unfortunately men didn't care for the truth, especially the new kinds, in proportion as they were good-looking. She had, however, a moral resource that should always fall back upon; it had already been a comfort to her, on occasions of acute feeling, that she hated men, as a class anyway.”
Source: The Bostonians
“She thought how curious it was that responses such as this--emotions, even--could run parallel with but quite separate from unhappiness. I am unhappy all the time, she thought, and that is a total occupation, but some other part of me still goes on working. I still see that things are beautiful, or significant, and that prompts a feeling. I can be angry, or pleased. But all this with detachment, as though it happened to someone else. It is as though half of me were some stranger, living independently.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“She thought how different life might have been for her if Edward hadn’t grown up a farmer’s son. She might have lived in town in a fine house like Cedric’s. But is that what I would want?
Some days, the farming life appealed to her: the fresh air, tending growing things, taking care of the animals. Other days, it morphed into little more than drudgery. And now, being alone. Well, she could do without that. It was not what she had agreed to.”
Source: In a Grove of Maples
“She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.”
Source: Foreign Bodies
“She thought how, here and there in the world, often hidden away in some alley or winding street which few people ever trod, there were small yet wonderful oases of human dedication and kindness of spirit. This gladdened her particularly because she had seen it and not let it pass her by.”
Source: Islands of Mercy
“She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“She thought, I am becoming a recluse. Yes, that's it, that is the way.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“she thought I could find a way to save her soul when she died and became an undead. Right now, I was just looking to find the rent money. I’d get to my roommate’s soul later.”
Source: White Witch, Black Curse
“She thought I hadn't seen her, but she's no good at hiding her intentions. She can't help tiptoeing around with a finger to her lips at key moments.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“She thought: I love him. Like telling herself something and hoping she believed it.”
Source: Life on the Preservation
“She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.”
Source: Chalice
“She thought, I shall die of misery and pain.”
Source: The Green Knight
“She thought, I shall never tell it to Jack, the strange love which I feel for this doomed man, as if he were a dog lying in the road with a broken back.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.”
“She thought if she could get us out of China, we'd be safe.
But she couldn't outrun her mental illness. It was waiting to devour us.
She always was a drowning woman trying desperately to throw me on the shore so I would not drown with her.”
Source: Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
“She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”
Source: The Borrowed House
“She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”
“She thought men were saviors...
...And she looked for more in them than what they were...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her...
And isn't that the most tragic lie...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it...?
She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was...
She was like a party that no one ever went to...
Like a cure...without a disease...
And isn't that the greatest fear of all...to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore?”
Source: Things I meant to say to you when we were old
“She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“She thought of faeries and their inability to lie and wondered what they did when they didn't know what the truth was.”
Source: Valiant
“She thought of God, who had followed Darab to be a slave for six agonizing years. Who had not helped Adin's precious Hulda when she grew sick after just seven months of marriage. Clearly, he was not a God who offered certainties.
Yet somehow, they clung to him. Even Esther, who had known she might die when she approached the king without an invitation, had chosen to obey him rather than pursue her own safety.
Roxannah exhaled. That seemed her own path now. Obedience, even though it meant walking under the ominous shadow of disaster. Adin said God would help her, and she believed him. Whatever the outcome.”
Source: The Queen's Cook
“She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.”
Source: Envy
“She thought of her children like the magic grow capsules you got at gift shops at the science museum. These tiny little nothings that you drop in water and then watch as they slowly reveal what they were always destined to be.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“She thought of her hand in his, of gripping his worn fingers with her small ones.
She thought of an old dead woman in a rocking chair, because her daughter couldn't bear to leave.
She thought of the Otherking, leaving his home because he could not stay.
And she thought of a mother, holding her dead child and the broken cauldron of rebrith.
Her hand tightened araound the broken spoon and she let the jagged waves of grief wash over her.”
Source: The Bone Houses
“She thought of herself as someone way too innocent to make him pay for fooling all those girls, but she would do anything for Owen.”
Source: The Retribution Game
“She thought of herself wondering how he was going to breathe in the coffin and marveled at the stubbornness of mental habits.”
Source: Death of an Ordinary Man
“She thought of him now and made him last forever.”
Source: The Coconut Children
“She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.”
“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”
Source: The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”
Source: The Price of Salt
“She thought of Perryville prison, of the noise, the heat, the eyes that never looked away.”
Source: Stolen